The Key is Feedback

When you work alone it's easy to stall out and lose sight of your story.

What you need is fresh perspective and ongoing feedback to keep your project moving forward, one step at a time.

With ScriptLadder you get:

Visual Feedback

Our unique and highly visual infographics highlight your script from new perspectives, in seconds.
It's like seeing your house for the first time with Google Earth.

Audible Feedback

Host an online table-read with our LiveScript™ and SmartCast™ tools.
You'll be amazed what you learn from hearing your script out loud for the first time.

Peer Feedback

Receive notes from colleagues quickly, securely, and online with our custom LiveScript™ tool.
We make it a painless experience for everyone, so you get more valuable feedback.

Visual Analytics

Your script is a goldmine of information.
ScriptLadder can pull that data out in seconds and show your story from completely new perspectives.
And prepare you for your next rewrite!

Character Map

This image shows each Character as a bubble whose size depends on how often that character appears in the script.
You decide the best criteria to use for your screenplay - number of scenes, number of dialogues, number of references in the Action lines.
When you click on a Character, the other Character bubbles change color to indicate how much interaction they have with the selected character.

Page Grid

This image shows your script superimposed over a page-grid.
Scenes alternate colors so you can easily see how long each one is -
some pages contain multiple scenes, some scenes run for multiple pages.

You can also select scene attributes to highlight on the grid.
In this view the 3 longest scenes are highlighted in red, yellow, and blue.

Scene Strips

Scene Strips are the "orchestra score" of your script.
Select a few Characters and see where they appear together throughout your script.

Every scene is shown as a vertical bar, with time going left to right.
The width of each bar indicates the length of that scene.

Pacing Chart

This image shows the pacing and rhythm of your script.
One bar represents scenes from 5 pages.
A taller bar has more scene-changes in those 5 pages than a shorter bar.

Story Structures

Are you a fan of Syd Field, Save the Cat, or The Hero's Journey?

Do you favor a structure of 3-acts, 4-acts, no acts?

How about 6-Steps, 8-Sequences, or 11-Stages?

No problem - we support them all

ScriptLadder offers an easy-to-use tool to mark your script with all the act-breaks and paradigm events you like,
using your favorite model. Add the markers as a map for yourself, or to help out your first-time readers or script consultants.
Whatever helps you write a better script!

Script Sharing

Getting notes is great. Giving notes is a pain.

Even with screenwriting software that support inline notes, you still have to email files back and forth.

Now it's easy

Controlled Access

You can share your script with everyone, a select group, or specific members, with just 2 mouse-clicks.
You can also set an optional expiration-date on the sharing.

Online Notes

No more emailing files around! Members use our unique LiveScript™ tool to make notes online and right on the script.
Then the author uses the same tool to see those notes.

Private Notes

When you share your script with multiple Members, each one can see only his or her notes and comments.
Of course as the author you can see everyone's notes in our Notes Report, all together or filtered by member.

Automatic Notifications

Members are notified by email when you share a script with them.
And you're notified when they send you notes.

Table Reads

There's nothing like hearing real actors say your words out loud to find the problems in your story and your dialog.
But what a headache!
You have to print copies, assign parts, call your friends, hope they show up, then beg them to stick around to give you feedback.

We just changed the game

Schedule a Table Read

Now you can set up a table-read in just a few clicks, add a script to read, and collect instant feedback from all participants.
You can even choose excerpts to read from several scripts, one after another.

At the end of the table-read we automatically email each screenwriter a link to all the notes and comments collected while reading that script.

Assign parts automatically

Our SmartCast™ tool lets you select your actors and automatically assign gender-specific parts in seconds.
Distribute parts evenly by the number of scenes, lines of dialogue, or characters.

You can also lock down some of your actors to play only specific characters and the SmartCast tool won't assign them any more parts.

Select the "Don't Overbook" option to make sure an actor isn't accidentally cast in two roles in the same scene.

No more printed copies!

Our unique LiveScript™ tool shows each actor his personal copy of the script with all his assigned parts pre-highlighted.

It also makes it easy for your actors, or spectators, to enter notes or click feedback-icons right in the script.

All the participants see these notes in real-time on their own devices. Plus it's immediate feedback to the screenwriter!

At the end of the table-read we automatically email each screenwriter a link to all the notes and comments collected while reading that script.

Great for writing groups

Are you part of a writing group that does monthly table-reads?
With ScriptLadder you can cast and read selected scenes in multiple scripts as easily as reading an entire script.

When your host changes to the next script all your participants see it on their LiveScript display.
And members who join the table-read can choose to appear in the Cast List to be assigned a part right at the time of the event.

Cloud Security

Security is critical to any cloud-based creative projects, but especially for new works that are still in progress.
We follow industry-standard best practices to protect your data.

We're serious about protecting your screenplay:

Content Encryption

All script content is encrypted in our database. All notes and comments submitted by other Members are also encrypted.

Profile Encryption

All your personal profile and demographic information is encrypted in our database.
That includes your name, company name, gender, and of course your personal email address and password.